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The latest case of fatal child abuse in Baltimore is raising another round of questions about how the system attempts to protect children from their abusive parents. One-month-old twins died last week, after their 17-year-old mother - whose first child had been taken away because of abuse - had been allowed to leave Johns Hopkins Hospital weeks earlier with the girls despite an effort by a concerned hospital social worker to find information about her past. The call to Child Protective Services apparently failed to produce information about either the prior case of abuse or the outstanding warrant for the young mother for running away from her foster home. A month later, the teen-ager...

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The latest case of fatal child abuse in Baltimore is raising another round
of questions about how the system attempts to protect children from their
abusive parents.
One-month-old twins died last week, after their 17-year-old mother - whose
first child...

When Christopher J. McCabe stood at the microphone of a recent nationally
televised news conference, Maryland's highest child welfare official mentioned
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work.
The secretary of...